Biographical Data :

Name :

Hamka

Period :

1908 - 1981

Biographical detail :

Writer.

Hamka or Haji Abdul Malik Karim Abdullah was the most prolific of Indonesian writers. He founded the first Muhammadiyah journal in 1925. His involvement in the Muhammadiyah organisation brought him to Makasar, where he published a book on Islamic history and wrote some novels.